Catherine MacPhail was born and brought up in Greenock where she still lives. She started off writing short stories for magazines and radio, as well as two romantic novels. She loves comedy and has had two comedy series on BBC Radio 2. She never even considered writing for children until something happened to her daughter, Katie, which sparked off her first novel for teenagers, Run Zan Run. It was published in 1994 and won the Kathleen Fidler Award for a first novel. Her second, Fighting Back, was one of the first winners of the Scottish Children's Book Award in 1999. Cathy's twentieth book, Roxy's Baby, which recently won the Royal Mail award for a Scottish Children's Book. Her latest series is called Nemesis and is a crime thriller over four books that follows Ram, a boy in search of his identity.
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